McChesney and Manson

Father of Robert W., Henry N., James E. and Anna E. McChesney. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland CA. Also buried here is his second wife, Keturah as well as his daughter Anna, her husband and their childeren. This is located in Plot #22. Note: someone spelled his name wtih two "t"s and there is only one t in his name.

The grave of Sarah Ellen Lincoln. Sarah is the sister of Abbie Louisa Lincoln, great, great grandmother of Martha, Marc and Michael McChesney. She married Robert G Byxbee. There appears to be a discrepancy in her birth date May 13, 1840 or May 13, 1841.

Homer Manson, born in 1839, in Bath, Maine. He died in 1897 at sea while returning on a voyage from Southern California to Tacoma, Washington.. Homer was the son of Samuel Manson and Octavia Jane Potter. He is the brother of Emma Ann Drummond Manson, Maria L. Manson and Clar E. Manson.

Registration of the ship Uncle John captain by Homer Manson. This document I obtain from the Sydney Australia Maritime Assocation. The document indicates that he commanded the ship from Eureka Californa to Sydney Australia. According to his personal log, which I have, he saw the Sydney Harbour light on June 9th, 1885 and then ancored in Neutral Bay in Sydney Harbour. This document here indicates that his wife (second wife Carrie) as well as his daughter Florence Manson and an infant daughter was on board as well.

As a child, I was told the Homer Manson only commanded ships from Eureka to San Francisco. I had no idea that his voyages would take him to foreign ports of call. The infant daughter should be Elinor who was born in November 1884.

Masters Certificate. This is the offical Masters certificate indicating that Homer Manson was a master seaman and is qualified to sail the Pacific Ocean.

Some of his trips would take him from Eureka to Sydney AU, to drop off lumber, head to Newcastle AU to pick up a load of coal, head to Hawaii and drop off the coal and pick up sugar and then head to San Francisco.

Grandmother of Martha M., Michael M. and Marc C. McChesney. I estimate that this was taken about 1880 and, at that time, her mother, Georgie A. Manson had died and she was living at 59 Tehama Street in San Francisco, CA with her grandmother, Abbie Louise (Hunt) Simpson and her step grandfather, Captain Clement S. Simpson. Her father, Homer Manson, more than likely, was on a long voyage.

Robert Watson McChesney. Son of Mathew Watson McChesney and father of Leroy Edward McChesney Sr. With his father, and his brother, Henry Nelson McChesney, they formed M. W. McChesney & Sons, a wholesale grocery firm in Honolulu HI. Robert Watson's sons, Fredrick.W. and , Jess. M. McChesney later joined the firm. Robert Watson mainly resided in San Francisco and Alameda. He served in the Civil War on the Union side.
This image was taken in 1894 (Maybe).

During the 1850s, he was a farmer in Iowa, moved to Missouri in 1860, and became a member of the 36th Iowa regiment during the Civil War.

After the war, he became a publisher of a newspaper in Batesville, Arkansas and in 1884, or so, moved the family to the San Francisco area. In 1888, the family moved to Honolulu to become an active member of the firm M.W. McChesney & Sons.

Wife of Robert Watson McChesney, Mother of Jess Milo, Fedrick Walter, Leroy Edward McChesney Sr., and others. Image is estimated to be taken in 1891-1892. There are several women family members that were named after her.

This is the McChesney plot, plot 34, lot 119 Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA. It is where Robert W. Mchesney is buried as well as his two wives, Martha Jane Davis McChesney and Abbie Louise Hunt McChesney. Also, George Godfrey McChesney, 6th child of RW and MJ McChesney as well as Olive Louise McChesney Lowell, 8th child of RW and MJ McChesney, should be in this plot. There are two other plots at this cemetery that contain family members as well.
If you enlarge this image, and look to the center right, up the hill, you will see Matthew Watson McChesney's grave stone.

Daughter of Abbie Louise Lincoln and Samuel R. Hunt. Sister of Georgie Anna Hunt and Henry Benson Hunt. She was a school teacher most of her life and she later became the second wife of Robert Watson McChesney.

After she married R. W. McChesney, she became a lady of society and working with the Fabiola Society, a charity group for the support of the Fabiola Hospital in Oakland, CA.

Henry Benson Hunt, Brother of Georgia Hunt and Abbie Louise Hunt. (born 1861 San Francisco, died April 28, 1923, Alameda, CA). As near as I can tell, he was a clerk in the Hawley Brothers hardware store in San Fransico in the late 1800s. He also appears to be the family freeloader as he lived with his mother until she died and then with his sister, Abbie, and her new husband, R. W. McChesney.

M.W. McChensey & Sons Letterhead. This was scanned in from an October 7th, 1904 Letter from J.M. McChesney to his brother, L. E. McChesney regarding a business transaction in Yokohama, Japan. F. W. McChesney is listed on the letterhead. However, he passed away in 1902.

Baseball: The Yokohama Cricket and Athletic Club (YCAC) baseball team is shown here in front of the club. As near as I can figure, from the rosters that I have, this image was taken about 1908. L. E. McChesney is on the top row at the left.